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Working Overseas

If you’ve been asked to supply a DBS Check for a job in a country overseas, you should speak to your employer to determine exactly what information they require before going ahead and applying for your DBS Check.

 

Apostille

This is a legal term which means that a certificate is officially checked and approved as genuine and factual by a body or organisation.
Disclosure Scotland/Disclosure and Barring Service can’t offer an Apostille service for their Disclosure certificates. You can ask the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to help with this. Full details are on their website: https://gov.uk/legalisation-document-checker

 

Before Applying for an Apostille

Before you can have a Disclosure certificate apostilled through the FCO route, you’ll have to get it stamped by an authorised person from Disclosure Scotland/Disclosure and Barring Service. The FCO will accept this stamp as proof that the certificate is an original. There is no fee charged for this additional stamping and verification process.

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